Try This! 3 Tips to Improve Your Child’s Comprehension Skills

 

The capacity to comprehend written words is referred to as comprehension. It's not the same as being able to identify words. Recognizing words on a page but not understanding what they mean is not the same as comprehension, which is the aim or goal of reading. Consider the situation where a teacher assigns a student to read a text. The child can read the full chapter, but when asked to explain what was read, he or she has no idea. The significance of what is read is enhanced through comprehension. When words on a page aren't just words, but thoughts and ideas, reading comprehension occurs. Reading is more entertaining, engaging, and educational when you understand what you're reading.

Ask Questions

A popular method for helping pupils focus on the meaning of the material is to ask and answer questions about it. Readers utilize the method of questioning to connect with the text. Questioning tactics assist the reader in better understanding and clarifying what he/she is reading. Struggling readers are less likely to ask themselves or the text questions as they read. Teachers may assist students by demonstrating the process of asking excellent questions as well as ways for finding answers in the text.

Retell The Story

Retelling is the process of having pupils verbally rebuild a tale they've read. In order to retell a story, students must use their prior knowledge of how stories operate and apply it to the current reading. Students arrange and summarize material, as well as make inferences, as part of the recounting process. Students are forced to study the text to identify what is significant when they are asked to retell a narrative in their own words. Teachers might urge pupils to form their own judgments about the tale in addition to retelling it.

Make Predictions

This method incorporates readers' capacity to deduce meaning from a text by making educated guesses. To make sense of what they read, good readers utilize prediction to integrate their prior knowledge with new information from the text. Teachers can have students anticipate what will happen in a narrative based on the title and any other clues they have, such as artwork. Later, teachers might ask students to identify material that supports or refutes their predictions. We can utilize clues, or text evidence, to learn more about the story parts and form a prediction. Readers can create predictions about what will happen next in a tale using their inferences.

At The Caribbean Academy for Reading Intervention and Development, we offer an Individual Reading Assistance Program that assists struggling readers to build skills in: 

• Sight words and high-frequency words 

• Sounds recognition 

• Reading comprehension 

• Letter and word recognition 

• Phonics and phonemic awareness 

Our Reading Assistance Programme is designed to teach the foundational skills of reading to children with significant academic challenges, empowering them to achieve grade-level proficiency. Our dedicated tutors help struggling readers understand the basic mechanics of reading and help them develop critical reading skills that will help them develop a lifelong love of reading. 

Target Audience: Struggling readers between the ages of 5 years to 10 years. 

Persons interested in our Individual Reading Assistance Program can contact us at 1-868-474-9819. 

Chrystal Murray 

Reading Interventionist 

1-868-474-9819